‘Foreign’
Address: Chloe Okuno
Distribution: Maika Monroe, Karl Glusman, Burn Gorman, Madalina Anea
Year: 2022
Premiere: 17 March 2023
★★★★
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t persecuting you, and this is the perfect creative exercise and dramatic tension is based on this expression. The protagonist feels the presence of a follower in his new home country for the first time in just a few hours, and since then, the film spends time thinking about how the young woman’s fears are growingand they keep us on their side and we can’t tell if the threat is real or not. And the more well-founded your fear, the more your neighbors and even your partner will suspect the police.
The ‘stranger’ then works as a metaphor for how. sexual violence Attacks on women continue to be ignored, belittled and questioned, but director Chloe Okuno doesn’t let the message ease the tension. True, the film does resort to somewhat obvious pitfalls to confuse us at times, but it more than makes up for it with its uncanny ability to handle perspective and cityscapes to make the mundane disturbing, and its ability to display a distinctive identity despite evocative references. Like “Rear Window”, “Devil’s Baby” and “giallo”. And while it’s predictable at various times, that’s about it; Finally, he talks about the importance of seeing the warning signs and reacting to them, even when the rest of the world is staring at them.